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Battle of Bridges. First to reach the Rhine, the Ninth Army's 83rd Division seized Neuss, opposite Düsseldorf. The 2nd Armored Division took Urdingen, four miles from Krefeld, and the 84th Division grabbed Homberg, across from Duisburg. Soon the Yanks had a 20-mile stretch of the river's west bank...
Smartly the 83rd Division band blared the serenade that welcomes recruits to Indiana's Camp Atterbury, This Is the Army, Mr. Jones. About 250 civilians piled off the Sunday-night train from Detroit. They were no ordinary recruits, some were beyond military age, some had fought in World War I; all were members of C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers. They had come from Midwestern armament plants to Atterbury's wooded hills to train a few days with U.S. soldiers...
Back in civvies, the U.A.W. stumbled into a 4 a.m. return train to Detroit. The 83rd rank-&-file passed judgment: "Good guys." Said Walter Reuther: "We're going home tired in body but determined to give the boys in our fighting army the fighting equipment they need. The boys in the services have plenty of guts. We're determined to back them with plenty of sweat...
...83rd birthday, unreconstructed Senator Carter Glass, asked whether he approved of the President's defense program, croaked fiercely that he thought the United States Navy should be sent "over to blast hell out of Germany...
...83rd birthday, bewhiskered old Poultney Bigelow, friend of the former Kaiser and inveterate iconoclast who is strong for war, dictatorship, beards, boating and hickory wagons for hauling wood and geese, gave out a written "interview," in which he asked all the questions and answered them himself. Some answers: "Stop thinking-take a holiday. . . . To go naked is wholesome, especially for nervous women...